well, of course. they have the freedom to express their dislike for this new album. you have the freedom to make up your own definitions. i know this already. why not just use the word properly to avoid this mess? just for the sake of practicing your freedom to make up your own definition?

I really expected for "FIVE" EP :D

Too bad it's not the real cove - I really like this.

BTW what's the name of "Five" fonts?

at least,a new release from ayu... after a very very long long time (feels like that)

OMG THAT COVER IS GORGEOUS. i wish it was real!

im excited to see how this turns out....i really want the shoes from whatever pv that is...like seriously i need them in my life

I don't need to "use" it properly because I already explained what I meant.
and I like the "mess" because its hilarious when people keep going at it even when it's over :roflmao

@microphone Try dropping this, even when you are right (which you are in my opinion), people still want to prove their point, even when they don't have one. Some people will never change...

@Benkari47 I love your cover so much, just checked your DA account, full of nice covers!

I can't even understand what the argument is about. :confused Bah, can't enjoy it so yes, please drop it.

Thanks. I was curious about how he sounds. He's good but that doesn't mean he and Ayu's voices will go together. Should be interesting to see how the track turns out.

you explained it after people misunderstood your post. do you understand my point? well, perhaps you are replying to practice your freedom to reply. :rolleyes

more of JUNO... I Like it ._.

wow, Leslie Kee directed her music video? looking forward for it!! ^^
I think it's BRILLANTE

I hope for this sooo much.

Love songs album had just a few TV performances. 2 x crossroad, 1 x MOON, 2 x Love song. I think that pretty much was everything she promoted for the new album back then.

It almost feels like she's featuring newbies for the sake of trying to get them out there..? I don't know, maybe I was just expecting some better collabs.

I hope for short haired covers. <3

NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!! now I lost my hopes for the collab with Juno to be good... I thought that would be the better kind of male vocalist, but in my view he is absolutely the same as Naoya ....

I still hope that I got the wrong impression, and that the collab will be outstanding - good - ok.

I hope for 150k copies sold in total!!

I proved my point without doing anything ah thank you.

I have to start listening to Toshinki (misspelled) to hear how Juno sings although people don't like him that much I see.

^ Lol but Juno wasn't in Tohoshinki...his younger brother, Junsu was.

I guess ayu is releasing this mini-album now so she dont need to release a full-album until the end of 2012 and she can return with her HOTEL Love songs Tour in the beggining of next year like in April.. :D

I have intense shoe-envy right now. >.<

i love her heels!!!! cant wait to c the pv

I hope this is true, it would make a lot of sense and we all want to see HOTEL Love Songs! :yes

^ I hope it's true as well :yes
If it's real it'll be amazing :heart

I just preorder my copy!!!Can't wait~

super excited! :) i hope for number 1!!!!! X)
Just saw what leslie kee posted! Im so excited hopefully it's for ayu's mv!! :D
something amazing and high budged mv coming up!
Just ordered my copies of FIVE im so excited!!!!!!!

Yeah, it seems to me like FIVE's tracks will just end up added onto HOTEL Love songs -or- CDL will heavily featuring all of FIVE's tracks leaving HOTEL Love songs to be performed completely next year. This is gonna make for one weird year or two~

That would make sense!! Hopefully throw in a winter single after this and HOTEL love songs can resume next year :)

I agree with most of you.
I know she made POWER of MUSIC because of the earthquake and I'll not complain (who can? It's too selfish tbh).
But I'd really like to see HOTEL Love songs too.

Anyway, I'm waiting for the limited ed. cover to preorder FIVE though. Ugh I really want to buy CD+DVD and the limited one both. Just if I'll like the cover lol.

The LE cover will probably feature a character from the game :)

^
I wouldn't mind a drawing of Ayu ala Tales of though :D like with Rule/Sparkle single, even if was by Toriyama lol.

Maybe she can combine five and hotel love song tour into FIVE star hotel love song it would be neat since it's just a mini album I'm sure it could fit xp

airheads believe blowing hot air proves a point even when they are unsure of the point in mind.

i can't wait for FIVE!

THANKS!!! wow..the shoes is so cool

LMAO FIVE Star Hotel Love Song LMAAAAAAAO

^LOL perfect! XD

^^ I never realized that it could turn into FIVE Star Hotel Love songs :roflmao

LOL ! FIVE star hotel Love song hahha.

A new album with whole new track.this is something new.

You're right that's the first time Ayu releases an album without any singles included.

*face palm*
That actually explains alot. Thanks
This would be awesome but it would feel like a long wait for her to release something.
I was dying for something new. Anything

I seriously wish she would do even a small tour for Love songs. :)

Does FIVE mean something like HIGH FIVE or just simply five songs in the album?

^ I figure it's just five tracks on the album...

good idea!
FIVE Start hotel love song is really a nice tour title!

The "FIVE Star Hotel Love Song" is actually a cute idea lol

Never even noticed that, you make a good point there! Besides, I don't think it's a bad title either

None of the titles are bad.

^but it could always be interpreted as A=ayu, N=juNo

just a wild guess ahahahaha

Lol, I love FIVE star HOTEL!

any pic relating the cover from team ayu web??

Yes!!! This This This!!!

and this is the new song and pv by JUNO, i don't like it, but at least i think his voice is better than the Urata's voice

i kind of liked his voice :] never heard it before, but yeah this song suxx

it does not suck to me, its just instrumental is too boring, its just repeats itself, but he's sexy and his voice is good

at the start Juno looks like more Jin Akanishi...even the voice?

The song is terrible but his voice is good ish so we have to wait and see how it sounds with a good song and with ayu to know anything really x.x

Ayu will make him sound good XD lol

sigh...I can do without these c-list collabs to be honest. especially after the mediocrity that was dream on.

I love the idea of "FIVE STAR Hotel Love Songs" but it seems to awkward to be a title of a tour. Maybe Love songs ~FIVE STAR HOTEL~ or something. Or FIVE STAR HOTEL ~LOVE SONGS~

I hope that JUNO (or even Urata or hell'a his name is...) will not achive a lovestory line pv with "drama" like the one in Glitter/fated or blossom. Even the BALLAD or Days "drama" was pretty cheesy for me. The only one I liked was with Mannie. I don't like "death endings" but the one with Mannie was pretty well aranged. The rest was just cheesy : P I don't have a right synomime for this word.

I thought Days was really nice. I loved that one but I also loved the song. Ayu's crying was a little over-dramatic though. BALLAD's acting was kinda over-dramatic at the end too but the story was interesting. fated was not bad I do not believe - I just think pairing it with glitter was awkward. I didn't like the story with Mannie that much - it was so confusing.

The only Mannie pv I like is virgin road. I haven't the slightest clue what the other two were about. I think no matter what if the PV is a love story it's going to be something stolen from the script of a typical j-drama. :laugh I don't have any expectations for love-PVs, as long as Ayu looks great and the story isn't unbearable, it's all good to me.

Juno song is good, but he just sings a very little part of it...i believe the lyrics is really short..and it's lacking of climax, the song is so flat...

It doesn't have to be a love pv. I'm actually not expecting one.

JUNO's style is very amuro-ish

dunno what to expect from him and ayu really :P

Horrible. Avex has a couple of real powerhouses, I don't see why she can't work with them instead.

Yeah I will never understand why they don't put big artists with big artists. I think that would be epic. But I guess if the voices don't go well together. I'd love to see Ku x Ayu but I don't know how they would merge the two styles. I love Ku's club songs so something like Driving or something trancey with the two would be hot.

I agree :yes

From the point of view of the company what's the point of putting two already well known artists together?
As we all know, it doesen't equal twice the sales or twice the attention. Putting a less known artist they believe in with a well known one make much more sense as the less well known artist will be exposed to a new audience and get more attention. And who knows, maybe ayu decided herself who to work with... :rolleyes

lol what? is he trying to pass that off as singing? :shakehead
at least Urata has a range. that was just pathetic.

At least Juno can dance. Haha. His brother, Junsu, can definitely sing a lot better.

Because she doesn't want to.

Ayu does what she wants....I kind of hope she works with Naoya(?) a lot more in the future just to piss people off.

Can't wait for the covers, I'm imagining something dark for them for some reason.

I agree. Virgin Road was amazing while the other two were rather questionable, especially Love song. Imo Ayu's acting was quite bad in it and the faces she made were kinda fake >.< Last angel wasn't as bad.

I don't want PVs with more love stories, I am quite sick and tired of them.

I don't wanna see Shuya or any dancers in the PVs! T____T

if you buy any version of FIVE during the tour (at the venue store) you'll recieve sticker with tour logo
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/5678/stickerj.jpg

I actually like JUNOs voice and the song. Will be interesting to see what he and ayu created together :)

As for JUNO, his avex debut song isn't bad, he coud've done worse. The video is boring, but that's nothing new when it comes to Korean artists. They can't do any better than boring dance videos (with very rare exceptions). Let's hope his song with Ayu is more Ayu and less this.

True. ayu herself chose to work with Naoya and Juno, and just their daily exchanges on twitter shows how close she is to them as friends. ayu and avex are not under that typical employer-employee relationship anymore anyway, so avex probably had no hand in these collaboration schemes. I can totally see Matsuura giving ayu free reign to do whatever she likes.

better to work with friends than people who you are only acquainted with..probably that's Ayu's style

Just because they are her friends that doesn't mean they need to do songs together.

This :innocent

The truth.

I haven't watch his PV yet until today,
and idk how to put it...he's even worse than Naoya :grumpy:no
So both collabs fall into the least expected songs
Sorry, Ayu

Thanks for sharing~~Really looking forward to this one :)

so true~
ayu has her own privilege to do what she wants and i appreciate that.
if the song is nice in my ears, i'll definitely listen to it, if not.. i won't to listen to it anymore. what's chosen, chosen.. whether we like it or not..

about JUNO, to be honest, his twin brother, Junsu of JYJ/ex-Tohoshinki is better singer and dancer if want to compare them two.
but JUNO is quite okay in my opinion, i just hope that avex could actually give him BETTER song's composition, not so boring like only have the bridges and verses for debut song, it totally lack of climax. his chinese songs are EVEN BETTER, LOL~~

avex, what are u doing to him? lols~

oh well, i'm still anticipating of ayu and JUNO collaboration song.
hopefully we gonna get the preview soon!

why didn't ayu collaborate with Namie / Kuu?

It would have been much more tempting, right? :D

^ hmm no one knows why~~~
probably all are so busy?
haha we'll never understand what's on their minds haha~

because she doesn't want?
because she want to help young stars? Namie / Kuu already huge stars

Yeah would be extremely cool if she will collaborating with Namie, Kuu or other huge jpop singer.
BUT I don't mind if she's collaborate with not so famous singers like JUNO or Naoya though. Sometimes fans should be think that Ayu does whatever she want. She can't please every fan of her just because someone thinks JUNO isn't enough cooler as Namie :/. We should respect her decisions. Even if she would collaborate with Pikachu (oh my, please Ayu I want this collab so bad :laugh).

I liked JUNO's song...

And it's about the time for ayu fans to notice that she doesn't give a damn about how her fans think she should run her career... And that's quite nice, cuz we would have tons of new versions of Seasons, evolution, M, No way to say and fairyland if she took her fans opinions into consideration...

We had a few of those and they were great imo...

Seasons = Life
evolution = until That Day... (although I never fully loved this one)
No way to say = momentum
fairyland = blossom

I finnally clicked on the JUNO song... I don't know why everyone sayin' it suck xD It's a good song! JUNO maybe's not his brother... But i like instruments and the chorus. Yeah, well, I liked this song, lol

wait, what? those sound nothing alike.

I listen to FATE like 3rd time in a row... And I got hope for AYUXJUNO song. Don't believe in AYUXNAOYA song though.

They don't need to, but they want to, and there's nothing we can do about it but look forward to it or sulk until the next release comes along. I may not give a hoot about those guys, but I'd still prefer to pick the former option.

LOL None of those songs sound anything alike...

Maybe?

SEASONS = Sweet season
evolution = UNITE!/SURREAL/trauma aka anything from LOVEppears to I am...
No way to say = more like Days than momentum. Days is like NWTS-lite.
fairyland = more like BLUE BIRD

I didn't say we can do anything about it. I understand she can do whatever she wants and by all means she should, but for all I care she should've gone to a karaoke bar and sang with them if she wanted it that badly :P But before we complain we should wait and see the actual product.

Ok this is gonna sound rude, but are you tone deaf or you've just never bothered listening to those songs? Did you ever bother reading the translations as well?

Having summer and winter singles for years sure isn't catering to the popular demand...

SEASONS = Virgin Road (but in fact, I dont got any close "new" song to SEASON. the more closiest is VR i think...)
evolution = Last Angel
No way to say = You were...
fairyland = totally blossom (BLUE BIRD is too happy, fairy and bloss got this nostalgic, sad vibe)

Songs like ourselves and alterna were on singles and even though they were songs against the music business and her record company they were both on summer singles. Sure, she follows a formula but the content of that formula is whatever the hell she wants it to be. Kind of like when she had her dancers sing in sunrise and everyone here flipped their **** and it turned out to be a hit in Japan. :laugh

I agree, but it was quite obvious what songs were meant to promote the singles. I am not saying that she doesn't have the freedom or anything, just that fro time to time she does what the fans want. Remember how we got RED LINE ^^

lol not even close...